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Linked Open Data and Systematic Taxonomy
Joel Richard Smithsonian Libraries
[email protected] CENDI/NKOS , December 6, 2012
A tale of two publications In three acts
Who are the Smithsonian Libraries?
• 20 Libraries in the U.S. and Panama • Supports research of staff and the public • Strong effort to digitize pre-1923 texts • Index Animalium and Taxonomic
Literature II are two examples
Joel Richard, [email protected] CENDI/NKOS, December 6, 2012
Disclaimer
We are still learning. We are still building.
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Act I: The Players
(or, identifying the data with which we are working and their meaning
and usefulness to the scientific community.)
Taxonomic Literature II Essential Reference
Tool for Botanists
Botanists/Authorsand Publications from 1753–1940
Multiple indexes, “unique identifiers”
It is a “database in book form”
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Joel Richard, [email protected] CENDI/NKOS, December 6, 2012
Joel Richard, [email protected] CENDI/NKOS, December 6, 2012
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Index Animalium Genus name, author & citation for 430,000 animals Covers Publications from 1758–1850 Also a database, but many challengesstill exist in the data.
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Act II: The Linking
(or, identifying those data elements to be linked, inherent challenges of parsing OCR text, and identifying
linkable remote data sources)
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foaf:lastName, foaf:familyName
foaf:firstName, foaf:givenName
foaf:name, skos:prefLabel
bio:birth
bio:death
skos:definition
tl2:personAbbreviation
tl2:titleNumber
dc:title
event:place
dc:publisher
dc:created
tl2:titleAbbreviation
http://library.si.edu/tl2/author/darwin RDF Type = foaf:Person
http://library.si.edu/tl2/title/origin… RDF Type = bibo:Book
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Challenges with Our Data • Errors in the Corrected OCR • Challenges in Parsing Citations • The 80/20 rule: manually making
connections unable to be made by automated means
• Finding suitable sources of data to link to. (DBPedia? VIAF? EOL? Others?)
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Linked Data Sources Low-Hanging Fruit: • DBPedia • OCLC WorldCat • Biodiversity Heritage Library • Virtual International Authority File • Encyclopedia of Life • Library of Congress Subject Headings • GeoNames • Open Library
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Act III: The Sum of the Parts
(or, our goals and desires for this data, what it means to the linked
data world and the scientific community in general)
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What’s the point? • This data may already exist online. • It may also not always be as accurate
as needed for science. • We are in a position to be the
authoritative source for this information.
• Linked Data allows it to be easily reused and shared.
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Danaus plexippus
Index Animalium Systema Naturae, etc
Aimeé Antoinette Camus
(botanist)
Your Local Library
( )
Taxonomic Lit. II
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One Example of Reuse Ryan Schenk http://synynyms.com/
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Thank you!
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